Thought I’d give this request a boost.
To assist us with the development of data input for the western Canadian component of the North American Global Yield Gap Atlas project (www.yieldgap.org), we are reaching out to producers across the Prairies to confirm that we have the most common crop sequences captured in the model. The Prairies have been divided into unique buffer zones based on weather/climate/soil parameters. The following questions will help us immensely, and your responses will be anonymous other than reflecting crop sequences for a given buffer zone.
He’s especially looking for Saskatchewan data. The rest of you can carry on as you were.
QuickDick would be all over it. No worries.
You clever Canadians. How exactly did you figure out how to raise crops in permafrost? Must be those long winter nights in the igloo.
We learned how to harness our horizontal body friction.
Also training our Snow Snakes. Damn things are everywhere.
We’re very inventive in Canada or freeze to death.
Don’t you know? Sask is warming at 3x the rate of the rest of the world. And the price of hay is skyrocketing because we currently have had snow on the ground as long as some entire winters.
Have you seen any Snow Snakes?
I never have, just seen many of their trails…
I think the damn things are invisible.
With Quadrotriticale of course.
Data for collective farm management
They missed the rotation that some around here employ.
Snow-Canola-Snow
Haven’t they heard? Heat and high carbon dioxide are destroying everything starting with common sense. While virtually everyone would reason that heat and high carbon dioxide are conducive to plant growth, climate scientists advise of upcoming famine. Did all these guys attend Matchbook U?
We fill these surveys all the time. Some pay up to 50 bucks for a few minutes of your time. This one is likely an individual’s own project since there was no payment for participation.
There’s a UBC study of strong smells in Vancouver that I plan on raiding with strong bovine excrement smells originating from various politicians houses and offices
I recall taking a tour of a Caribbean island – long ago, before it sank due to the rising sea level from global warming (but to be fair, global warming was taking place on this island three times faster than anywhere else, so the sea level was rising faster here as well).
The tour guide was a fount of local knowledge on their history – this particular island had been part of the Empire, and the local governor decided to import and release mongooses (mongeese?) to wipe-out all the poisonous snakes. Only problem with that was – there were no snakes on this island, poisonous or otherwise. So the tour guide ended this vignette with ” – and now there is only one building on the island where there are snakes.”
I guessed right – “Government House?”
I had a chance to look at yieldgap.org. and it turns out The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is one of their benefactors.
It was then I realized we were being guided down that sustainability/corporate responsibility bullshit path with this sort of survey, and remembered that nobody does that kind of bullshit better than The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The skeptics are probably correct.